diet

\ˈdaɪ.ət\

/\ˈdaɪ.ət\/ noun

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The verdict

“diet” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #42,281) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.

#42,281
frequency rank, French
5,307
“D” headwords
3
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Diète.

Corpus desk

Index FR-diet · diet · French

diet · rank #42,281 · 3 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #42,281
  • LEN-MID 4 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-LOW 3 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,307
  • PHOTO-FINISH diamètres

Nearest frequency peer: diamètres (-1 rank slots)

Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.

Voisins de fréquence du confusable « diet »

Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous

corpus weight

What this shows Les barres placent « diet » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

diet vs dt
50% similar
diet vs dix
50% similar
diet vs due
50% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for diet
PropertyValue
Headworddiet
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ˈdaɪ.ət\
Letters4
Frequency rank#42,281
Misspellings tracked3
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Rang de corpus près des confusables de « diet »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).dietse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « diamètres » (#42,280), « deviendrais » (#42,279), « différentielles » (#42,283). Parmi 5,307 lemmes en « D », « diet » est au #42,281. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Easy to mix with look-alikes

The spelling risk for diet is neighbouring look-alikes ("dt", "dix", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \ˈdaɪ.ət\. Frequency #42,281 among 5,307 “D” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.

Our generated misspelling index lists 3 likely wrong-spelling variants for diet, with forms such as "ddiet", "diett", and "idet". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "dt", "dix", "due", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is diet, spelled D-I-E-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Diète.
  2. 2
    Régime.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how diet appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Scientists do not know what the rim rock crowned snake eats, but centipedes and other small invertebrates are presumed to constitute a major part of its diet.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ddiet
  • diett
  • idet

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of diet - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

ddiet1diett1idet2
Edit distance from "diet"

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "diet"?
"diet" is spelled D-I-E-T. The IPA pronunciation is \ˈdaɪ.ət\.
What does "diet" mean?
As a noun, "diet" means: Diète.
What words are commonly confused with "diet"?
"diet" is commonly confused with "dt", "dix", "due". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "diet"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "diet" is \ˈdaɪ.ət\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "diet" come from?
"diet" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "diet", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

deng#42,277crin#42,257crac#42,255flor#42,344

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list